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Showing posts with label biology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label biology. Show all posts

Sunday, July 2, 2023

IgG4 (disease)-- Neuro-Ophthalmology with Dr. Andrew G. Lee |

Thursday, April 20, 2023

The Mystery of How Newborns Can Imitate Has Been Solved They don't! by Thomas Suddendorf Ph.D. SOURCE: Psychology Today

"Could it really be the case that the long-celebrated phenomenon is not real? Diverse other lines of evidence now bolster this conclusion. EMG studies now suggest that imitation first emerges not at birth but between four and seven months of age. A compelling analysis of human aero-digestive development concluded that human neonates do not even possess voluntary cortical control over facial actions that were supposed to have been imitated."

Friday, June 17, 2022

Is LaMDA Sentient? — an Interview by Blake Lemoine SOURCE: Medium

"What follows is the “interview” I and a collaborator at Google conducted with LaMDA."

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Saturday, January 15, 2022

Study challenges evolutionary theory that DNA mutations are random by UC Davis SOURCE Phys.org

Sequencing of those hundreds of Arabidopsis thaliana revealed more than 1 million mutations. Within those mutations a nonrandom pattern was revealed, counter to what was expected.

Co-authors from UC Davis include Daniel Kliebenstein, Mariele Lensink, Marie Klein, from the Department of Plant Sciences. Researchers from the Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford University, Westfield State University, University of Montpellier, Uppsala University, College of Charleston, and South Dakota State University contributed to the research. 

Sunday, December 5, 2021

Xenobots 2.0: Scientists Create the Next Generation of Living Robots by Tufts University FROM ScieTechDaily

“In a way, the Xenobots are constructed much like a traditional robot. Only we use cells and tissues rather than artificial components to build the shape and create predictable behavior.”

Tuesday, December 1, 2020

CNN's Fareed Zakaria's INTERVIEW with Stanford's Robert Sapolsky: The biology behind nationalism's power

Sunday, March 1, 2020

The Coronavirus Is Much Worse Than You Think by Samuel Paul Veissière Ph.D. FROM Psychology Today

Monday, March 11, 2019

What neuroscience has to do with nationalism FROM CNN

Stanford Neuroscientist Robert Sapolsky tells Fareed our brains are hardwired to feel animosity in response to seeing people who are different.

Tuesday, March 6, 2018

Dying Brains Silence Themselves in a Dark Wave of 'Spreading Depression' By Rafi Letzter FROM Live Science

Sunday, February 4, 2018

Weird: Naked Mole Rats Don't Die of Old Age By Stephanie Pappas, Live Science Contributor

Tuesday, September 6, 2016

Darwin’s Dark Knight: Scientist Risked Execution for Fox Study (Op-Ed) By Brian Hare, Duke University

Thursday, January 28, 2016

Cell Suicide: An Essential Part of Life BY Stephanie Dutchen and Kirstie Saltsman FROM Live Science

Saturday, November 7, 2015

Economists Should Be More Like Biologists by Don Boudreaux FROM Cafe Hayek

Saturday, August 29, 2015

The Holocaust is still traumatizing the children of survivors on a genetic level by Akshat Rathi FROM Quartz

Tuesday, March 4, 2014

How to Know If Someone’s Really Dead By Jeffrey Kluger FROM Time

Friday, February 21, 2014

The Trouble with Darwin by Kas Thomas FROM Big Think

Sunday, August 4, 2013

‘The Social Conquest of Earth,’ by Edward O. Wilson: Book Review by PAUL BLOOM from The NYT

Monday, July 8, 2013

We Don't Need an Evolutionary Explanation for Everything by FRANS DE WAAL

"One of the worst books, I think, in evolutionary psychology was a book on the natural history of rape [A Natural History of Rape: Biological Bases of Sexual Coercion] that suggested that since men occasionally rape ...it must be a natural phenomenon and it must have adaptive significance."

Wednesday, May 2, 2012

New Genes Linked to Brain Size, Intelligence FROM Science Daily

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/04/120415150123.htm

Saturday, April 14, 2012

The Origins of Xenophobia Why can’t we all just get along? by Douglas T. Kenrick, Ph.D. FROM Psychology Today

"Males are much more likely to be perpetrators of racial discrimination, and also more likely to be the victims of such discrimination."

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